Re: Disposing of Objects?

From	Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.help
Subject	Re: Disposing of Objects?
Date	2011-11-16 06:23 -0800
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On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 06:59:12 -0800 (PST), Davej <galt_57@hotmail.com>
wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

>If I have global objects is it desirable to dispose of them before
>reinstantiating them? Thanks.

That is fully automatic in Java. Unlike C++ you can't dispose of them,
just delete a reference to them, which is noticed on the next gc
cycle.

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/garbagecollection.html
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Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
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Disposing of Objects? Davej <galt_57@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-15 06:59 -0800
  Re: Disposing of Objects? markspace <-@.> - 2011-11-15 07:08 -0800
    Re: Disposing of Objects? Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-11-15 08:17 -0800
      Re: Disposing of Objects? Davej <galt_57@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-15 09:56 -0800
        Re: Disposing of Objects? Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2011-11-15 10:10 -0800
          Re: Disposing of Objects? Davej <galt_57@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-15 12:15 -0800
            Re: Disposing of Objects? markspace <-@.> - 2011-11-15 12:51 -0800
        Re: Disposing of Objects? Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-11-15 13:00 -0800
        Re: Disposing of Objects? Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-11-15 21:59 -0500
          Re: Disposing of Objects? markspace <-@.> - 2011-11-15 19:13 -0800
            Re: Disposing of Objects? Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-11-15 22:32 -0500
  Re: Disposing of Objects? Davej <galt_57@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-15 08:08 -0800
    Re: Disposing of Objects? markspace <-@.> - 2011-11-15 08:32 -0800
    Re: Disposing of Objects? Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-11-15 12:57 -0800
  Re: Disposing of Objects? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-16 06:23 -0800

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